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How succesful you are in life tends to be related to how much you can leverage your unique talents. Unique talents set you up for high paying jobs that make life much easier.

And yes you can go too far with that, but generally speaking being average at a lot of things is much worse than being good at one or two things.

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I think I missed the mark in how I positioned it.

Generally, I feel it’s my job as the parent to draw out, amplify and support their unique talents. Schools aren’t really set up to maximize unique potential so, we are using them for what they can provide.

I suspect people read that we chose a school to address the challenges our kids had and stopped there.

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